Any good non 12 volt electric air pumps?
08-18-05, 01:15 AM
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Getting a little lazy cranking on the hand pump everyday. Anybody make a good 120v wall plug-in bike pump? 
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1320V?
that's one hell of a voltage. I've seen one that you attach to the car via cig lighter, not sure if they have a wall plug in the box. but you can always have an adapter for it.
that's one hell of a voltage. I've seen one that you attach to the car via cig lighter, not sure if they have a wall plug in the box. but you can always have an adapter for it.
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WENT THROUGH EXACTLY THE SAME PROB
My advice, go for a floor pump
Let me prove why:
I looked everywhere and the only shops that had a solution were kmarts, which had a bit rechargeable one, which was very loud, very slow, and only schrader valve
YOU WILL NOT FIND ONE WITH A PRESTA VALVE, I tried using an adaptor with mine but it didn't hold well enough to the cheap schrader valves.
When I was looking at these solutions, I hadn't tried a floor pump, and was under the impression that it wasn't very quick, but boy was I wrong. Don't get $10 floor pump cause they are crap, but any floor pump from a bike shop (usually 50 or so dollars) will be super fast, with 6psi per press, (and the presses are so easy) so if you're filling up your tire, it's literally 3 presses, and you're back to full pressure.
Enough of my blabbering already, but truthfully, I muddled with adaptors and air compressors for a while, yet a floor pump is so much better, and so much faster, you'll never go back. TRUST ME
My advice, go for a floor pump
Let me prove why:
I looked everywhere and the only shops that had a solution were kmarts, which had a bit rechargeable one, which was very loud, very slow, and only schrader valve
YOU WILL NOT FIND ONE WITH A PRESTA VALVE, I tried using an adaptor with mine but it didn't hold well enough to the cheap schrader valves.
When I was looking at these solutions, I hadn't tried a floor pump, and was under the impression that it wasn't very quick, but boy was I wrong. Don't get $10 floor pump cause they are crap, but any floor pump from a bike shop (usually 50 or so dollars) will be super fast, with 6psi per press, (and the presses are so easy) so if you're filling up your tire, it's literally 3 presses, and you're back to full pressure.
Enough of my blabbering already, but truthfully, I muddled with adaptors and air compressors for a while, yet a floor pump is so much better, and so much faster, you'll never go back. TRUST ME
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You can get a decent quailty 120V compressor from ACE Hardware or any home improvement store for around US$40-70 made by Campbell-Hausfeild or DeVibliss. If you already have a quaility 12V compressor, you can just get an adaptor to use on your household circuit.
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Originally Posted by Sincitycycler
Getting a little lazy cranking on the hand pump everyday. Anybody make a good 1320v wall plug-in bike pump?
